Making fresh homemade pasta is surprisingly simple, requiring just two ingredients and water. This pappardelle pasta recipe ...

We recommend the Marcato Design Atlas Pasta Machine, which is Amazon’s best-selling manual pasta maker that has over 2,000 positive reviews and 4.6 out of 5 stars.

You can do it over a weekend or knock it out quickly with a food processor and hand-cranked pasta machine. Either way, it's tasty and easy.

Here’s the good news: You can make pasta at home — even if you’ve never tried it before, and even if you don’t have eggs or a pasta machine. All you need is a pound of flour. Really!

Manual machines let you make sheets of pasta dough at your own pace and control the width, but they can require a lot of maintenance and cleaning, says Matijevich.